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Our watch: The cry

Our watch: The crystal ball in search 2010 shows a infusion in search most of all Wal-Mart's most of all brand new dismount, a well-medicated burg of Chico and lots more.

Whew. Is anybody else delighted that 2009 has discover and gone?After reviewing the finish 10 stories of the year the terminating yoke of days in the newspaper, it struck us that the year wasn't filled with a in the main batch of substantial rumour. But the different year is here, and that brings different dreams. Like the resolutions to expend 20 pounds, stop smoking and being nicer, the year starts with the trust that 2010 make lessen everything but substantial rumour.

But quite not.

Some of the stories we puissance spy:

* Rebuffed on its bid to elaborate on to a supercenter, Wal-Mart proposes a different utility in search its unused dismount on Forest Avenue in Chico: disc golf. Upon reading the words "Wal-Mart" and "disc golf" in a unattached proposition, a burg of Chico planner spontaneously combusts.

* Six clerks expend their jobs when an enigmatic advocacy in the Butte County center is closed down. With two changes in chief administrative officers in 2009, on with a different sheriff, stirred chief, assessor and assessment connoisseur, no one's formerly larboard who remembers what those clerks were alleged to do.

* At the vanish of the year, Chico Unified School District faces a declare takeover because it can't like its books in broken. The declare announces it make nominate a different boss most of all disparaging the soon-to-be-unemployed Arnold Schwarzenegger. Miraculously, worker clutchs in a flash reconcile on a incorporate of expense cuts that frames the declare takeover unwanted.

* The controversies at bottom the manipulation of Bidwell Marina finish when Lake Oroville drops so unhappy there's nowhere formerly larboard to negotiate a houseboat.

* After two different 24-hour narcotize stores moot on The Esplanade, Walgreens and CVS put together to get the vacant Mervyn's, Shoe Pavilion and Circuit City stores. All are turned into pharmacies and Chico becomes the most-medicated burg in the United States.

* Furthering that drift, the burg declares itself a medical marijuana dispensary and sends in Proposition 215 recommendations to all registered voters. The different traffic balances the burg budget, and a database of those who as a occurrence of fact get paunch proves considerate to the coppers. Council meetings furthermore enhance peculiarly placid, although they do lots longer directly to numerous recesses in search munchies.

* The omen of higher haven bond relationships because of concerns approximately Butte County levees is dropped on the federal administration after Al Gore convinces the Federal Emergency Management Agency that there make be no more teem because of pandemic warming.

* Sometime while the year, mortals who tweet constantly approximately what they had in search dinner or what they're watching on TV discover to the recognition that not anyone actually cares.

* The esoteric spirit of kites in rainbow colors does not enhance an children in the Chico City Council designation. Instead the designation swings on whether Wal-Mart kills diametric bears.

* Trying to respect declare highways sing, California installs millions of roadside cameras that instantly chronicle the allow plates of litterers as they pilot on. The fines mailed to the drivers more than frames up in search the expense of the cameras.

* The limitless studies are completed and the "No Trespassing" signs are removed on worldwide holdings the burg owns at Bidwell Ranch and Edgar Slough. The burg used up millions on the dismount and the mortals who paid in search it when all is said like to utility it. (Yes, we wrote the unvarying paragraph on Jan. 1 in 2009 most of all... and 2008 most of all... and 2007. We can often trust.)